International Building Simulation Conference 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Contains 206 papers.
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The indoor moisture production is of great interest when simulating the indoor air humidity. Surface materials in an apartment will buffer some of the…
Standard office building control systems operate the heating, ventilating, and air conditioning on a fixed schedule, based upon anticipated occupancy and…
A set of in-depth diagnostic test cases for multi-zone heat transfer was developed. These are designed to test the ability of building energy analysis tools…
Buildings do not perform as modelled. There are many reasons for this, for example change of scope, functions, assumptions, weather, user behaviour and so…
The canopy wall in the greenhouse is modelled as windows in the builidng simulation software, so as to avoid using the concept of overall heat transfer…
BIM can examine the placement of ductwork and machinery. It significantly increases the efficiency of a mechanical design. In addition, BIM functions as a…
This paper deals with two examples of sources for uncertainties in the simulation of high efficiency buildings. The two sources deal with solar shading and…
The design of retrofitting strategies for historical buildings involves various challenges. The aim is often not only to save energy while providing…
This paper outlines a methodology for the calibration of detailed building energy simulation (BES) models using an analytical optimisation approach. The…
In this study, the sensitivity of occupancy behaviour on building energy simulation is investigated. Given the changing nature of the office environment as…
This paper describes the development of a modelling approach which combines the energy use in industrial production, with the energy flows relating to the…
This paper adopts an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach to investigate the dispersion behaviors of human exhaled droplets under the displacement ventilation in a…
This paper describes a systematic methodology for the development of calibrated thermodynamic Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models for controlled…
Excess energy consumption of HVAC system is not usually noticed without the dissatisfaction to thermal environment. Recently it has become easier to…
Given the challenges to design Net Zero Energy Buildings (NZEBs), the use of Building Performance Simulation (BPS) tools during early design phases has been…
The accurate representation of building operation is essential for building simulation to represent the consequence of design and operational controls…
This study investigates the impact of air tightness assumptions on the accuracy of energy performance predictions generated by building simulation of…
This paper discusses the potential of a Solar Assisted Ground-Source Heat Pump (SAGSHP) system configuration with…
This paper introduces a newly developed multi-criteria decision making tool called RR-PARETO and its application to HVAC design. As an illustration, five…
Designers oversize HVAC systems for various reasons, and some reasons are more justifiable than others. In oversizing the system, the designers are…